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Emergency ClothesDryer

for those times when there isn't time
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We've been there; gotta leave the house in 10 minutes and all the laundry is still sopping wet...

Enter the "Dryinator": a clothes-horse mannikin with perforated skin, expandable to the size of your clothing.

Place your clothes on the mannikin and plug it into the Direct Vent on your dryer (which also has to be invented; it's just direct shunt from the blower) and all that warm air runs through the mannikin and *directly* through the set of clothes which you need to be dry *now*.

FlyingToaster, Apr 30 2008

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       This is baked, at least for shirts. I've seen it - it's a torso you put the shirt on, and it blows warm air through a numitide of holes to inflate, dry and de-crease the shirt. Can I find a link for it? Is my name Edwin?
MaxwellBuchanan, Apr 30 2008
  

       Actually, just Google "pressing dummy"
MaxwellBuchanan, Apr 30 2008
  

       Baked
Voice, Apr 30 2008
  

       MB, your use of the language never ceases to amaze me. You are very effluent.
Canuck, May 01 2008
  

       amazes me too... from what I read from Googling "pressing dummy", this isn't it.
FlyingToaster, May 02 2008
  

       //very effluent// [marked-for-tagline]
vincevincevince, May 02 2008
  

       Oh, there is another way to avoid infringement, [FlyingToaster]: Go, get the torso of the medieval full armor in the antiquated armory of your granny. Get the ribcage of your treasured high-school skeletal science project. Paint the metallic cuirass black. Put your wet tux on that springy ribcage torso then encase it in the cuirass tightly. Hoist it above the chimney stack and let it bake under the noonday sun. Observe the result. Then, leave it for an appointment of your patent attorney. Hurry, just leave your pajamas on!
rotary, May 02 2008
  

       I saw a thing on "How It's Made" in a pants factory. They use air to "blow" up a pair of pants...they just fit the waste area to a closed disk and the leg cuffs to an air source...the pants bowl up to shape, and they inspect them for open seams and such...I thought, what a great idea for a "Pant's Dryer" if the air were slightly heated...and the disc and cuffs would be compact...a small blower...and the thing could be made to work equally well for shirts and blouses with small necks and sleeve discs...attached with small elastics or clips. I bun this for innovation and originality. I like it.
Blisterbob, May 02 2008
  

       FlyingToaster places some clothes on the Dryinator. He then keep bashing at it until its sensors cannot keep a cool temper and soon blow and heat up, turning it into a bright-hot cyan incredible hulk Dryinazaur. But FlyingToaster forgot to preset the device to his wife vital statistics. In a split second the wife screams, horrified to see her sexy undies stretched to the limits and torn to bits!
rotary, May 03 2008
  

       Dryinator Mark II: Hang the damp piece of clothing inside the Mark II's sleek cabinet, close the door, and activate the timer. Now go finish your breakfast and make sure you have actually put your presentation/resume/lunch into your briefcase.   

       The Mark II hums slightly as it begins the drying operation. Fans at the bottom of the unit pull moisture-laden air downwards through a set of screens packed with dessicant crystals (like those tiny packs of silica gel that fell on the floor when you unpacked your new BluRay player). Moisture-free air coming out is pushed back to the top of the cabinet by way of the cleverly-designed inner lining of the cabinet, which also removes odours and bacteria by filtering the air through activated-charcoal and UV lighting along the way. In mere minutes, a bell sounds to tell you the Mark II is done.   

       When the dessicant needs to be recharged (dried out), simply slide the filters out of the Mark II, place them in a 150 C oven for 3 hours, and Viola! your Mark II is ready for it's next challenge.   

       Comes with handy shelves for drying shoes or small pets, and preserving foodstuffs (instruction manual provides a recipe for yummy dried apricots!).
Canuck, May 03 2008
  

       I never wash wimmin's clothing, not after turning a pretty size 6 blouse and a reasonable girlfriend into a size 4 blouse with black specks and a raving monkey-woman.
FlyingToaster, May 03 2008
  

       //I never wash wimmin's clothing, not after turning a pretty size 6 blouse and a reasonable girlfriend into a size 4 blouse with black specks and a raving monkey-woman.//   

       hee, hee how did a size 6 girlfriend look in a size 4 blouse?
po, May 03 2008
  

       //Emergency Clothes Dryer//   

       After you wash your clothes in the shower with shampoo, pop your clothes into the microwave for about 60 seconds, pull out with tongs, swing about your head. Instant dried clothes. Any bachelor knows that...   

       (Note to self: Don't leave keys in pocket)
Klaatu, May 03 2008
  

       Blisterbob: Sp: "they just fit the WAIST area to a closed disk..." At least, I hope that was a misspell.
nick_n_uit, May 03 2008
  
      
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